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There's something I'd like to point out tho: it's not a "strong sense of justice". Justice, for us autistic people is an emotion. You feel despair, you feel love, you feel joy... we also feel justice, injustice, fairness...
Yeah, we have some unusual emotions, and justice is one of them.
Interesting. Is that a perspective used among psychologists?
There is evidence of it. This page explains it somewhat well: https://www.simplypsychology.org/autism-justice-sensitivity.html although it fails to address it with an autistic perspective as it says:
I disagree with this, i know what's anger, what's anxiety... injustice feels different to those.
I could search later for more sources, but talking to other autistic folks, I noticed that many of us have a wide array of emotions that either work differently, or are not present in neurotypical brains.
The most prevalent has always been justice and the reason we concur on it being an emotion is because it can manifest physical symptoms the same way as any other emotion.
I've never thought about it this way before but it makes a lot of sense. I definitely feel injustice as distinct from anger, to the point of having completely different physical sensations. Injustice to me feels like, idk kinda like I'm pissed off medusa. I feel it like the hair on my head all wants to stand up all at once and I feel this hard focus and a feeling I need to do something about it. Anger I feel much more in my face and chest kinda.